President Donald Trump asked Congress to enact a $2.2 trillion budget for discretionary programs, seeking a massive increase in defense spending, while also renewing his push for steep cuts to domestic agencies.The 2027 budget proposal released on Friday requests $1.5 trillion for defense, a significant increase over the $1 trillion sought for fiscal year 2026.

The new figure includes $1.1 trillion in base discretionary spending for the Department of Defense and another $350 billion in mandatory spending.

The Office of Management and Budget is also still reviewing a potential $200 billion Pentagon supplemental package for the current fiscal year that would be on top of Friday's request as the US carries out its war in Iran.Discretionary non-defense spending would be cut 10%, or about $73 billion, according to the White House.“President Trump promised to reinvest in America's national security infrastructure, to make sure our Nation is safe in a dangerous world,” White House budget director Russell Vought said in a message accompanying the blueprint.

“The 2027 Budget upholds this promise and would ensure that the United States continues to maintain the world's most powerful and capable military.”The president's decision to seek a dramatic rise in the Pentagon's budget — the largest single-year increase since World War II — comes as polls indicate he's struggling to convince many Americans of the wisdom of the war in Iran.The proposal also puts Trump's Capitol Hill allies on the spot, after lawmakers failed to enact the full scope of reductions he sought in his first year back in office, and amid some voter backlash to his slash-and-burn efforts to trim the bureaucracy.

Taken as a whole, the budget sets up a fierce debate over policies and priorities ahead of November's critical midterm elections.“Donald Trump's budget is rotten to the core, and Democrats will make sure it never passes,” Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said in a statement.

“If Republicans choose to go along with this budget, they will be like Thelma and Louise and follow Donald Trump's political fortunes off the same cliff.”The overall discretionary spending increase Trump has proposed would likely exacerbate an already large US annual budget deficit.

In a departure from decades of practice, the budget did not include 10-year projections for the spending plan's impact on future deficits, leaving those to an obscure release later in the year.

That's in part because the budget doesn't account for entitlement spending like Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid — the three biggest drivers of future deficits.

The White House budget includes $65.8 billion for shipbuilding, 85 new F-35 fighter jets from Lockheed Martin Corp., and a pay raise for troops.

Enlisted personnel up to the rank of an Army staff sergeant would get a 7% raise, while top officers would get a 5% increase.

The Trump budget accomplishes that through $350 billion in mandatory spending next year, as it continues its attempt to shift more....